In the beginning, the book takes place on Earth, twelve minutes from being destroyed, at the house of Arthur Dent. His house is about to get destroyed to build a bypass after the council agreed to do this. Arthur complains that the government is doing a terrible job letting people know their plans and the way he found out was going to the cellar of the local planning office to find the plans locked up in a filing cabinet in a lav. Dent’s best friend, Ford Prefect, who is an alien and a researcher for the Hitchhiker’s Guide, arrives and convinces L. Prosser, the one bulldozing Dent’s house, to not bulldoze the house because Prefect wanted to get a drink with Arthur. Prefect orders an abundance amount of beer and explains to Dent that they will need it
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Then the Vogan aliens arrive and explain that they are destroying Earth in order to create a hyperspatial express route, similar to the destruction of Arthur’s house; eventually they destroy Earth. While this is occurring, 500,000 light years away, the President of the Imperial Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox just chose the top secret project called the Heart of Gold because he wanted to steal the spaceship with the Heart of Gold engine, which is why he became President. Back to Earth or what is left of Earth, the Vogans hate hitchhikers and technically destroy anything they see, but they love eating, which is why they brought on the Dentrassi. These types of alien picked up Ford and Arthur before Earth was destroyed, but since the Vogans love destroying stuff, their leader, Jeltz, wants to kill Arthur and Ford because they are hitchhikers. He announces it on the PA on the ship and plans to throw them out an airlock. Although Arthur cannot understand anything Jeltz is saying, Ford throws a Babel fish in his ear that translates the Vogan language to
Then the Vogan aliens arrive and explain that they are destroying Earth in order to create a hyperspatial express route, similar to the destruction of Arthur’s house; eventually they destroy Earth. While this is occurring, 500,000 light years away, the President of the Imperial Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox just chose the top secret project called the Heart of Gold because he wanted to steal the spaceship with the Heart of Gold engine, which is why he became President. Back to Earth or what is left of Earth, the Vogans hate hitchhikers and technically destroy anything they see, but they love eating, which is why they brought on the Dentrassi. These types of alien picked up Ford and Arthur before Earth was destroyed, but since the Vogans love destroying stuff, their leader, Jeltz, wants to kill Arthur and Ford because they are hitchhikers. He announces it on the PA on the ship and plans to throw them out an airlock. Although Arthur cannot understand anything Jeltz is saying, Ford throws a Babel fish in his ear that translates the Vogan language to